Filipino Sweet-Style Meaty Spaghetti. Spaghetti is very popular in the Philippines. Every occasion, event or party (especially birthday celebration) calls for it. This recipe for every kid's favorite - Filipino Spaghetti - comes from the orphanage that I worked at for a year in Cebu.
Filipino spaghetti is a Filipino adaptation of the Italian spaghetti with Bolognese sauce.
It has a distinctively sweet sauce, usually made from tomato sauce sweetened with brown sugar or banana ketchup.
I know it sounds like a nightmare to Italians but, you know, sweet pasta sauce, well… it's an acquired taste, I suppose.
You can have Filipino Sweet-Style Meaty Spaghetti using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Filipino Sweet-Style Meaty Spaghetti
- You need 1 of bulb Garlic.
- You need 2 pieces of Red Onion.
- Prepare 1/2 kilograms of Ground Beef.
- It's 210 grams of Corned Beef.
- You need 300 grams of Hotdog Balls.
- It's 200 grams of Button Mushroom.
- It's 900 grams of Spaghetti Sauce.
- It's 115 grams of Tomato Sauce.
- It's 600 grams of Spaghetti Noodles.
- It's 165 grams of Eden Cheese.
- You need 2 cups of Water.
- You need 1/4 tablespoon of Iodized Salt.
- It's 1/4 tablespoon of Ground Black Pepper.
- It's 1 tablespoon of White Sugar.
Ladle a generous amount of the meaty sauce over them. Serve your Filipino sweet-style spaghetti with toast. Spaghetti is one of the dishes we adopted from foreign cultures and our version of spaghetti is somehow different from the original Italian style spaghetti which only consists of tomato sauce plus herbs and spices. Filipino-Style Spaghetti is one of the favorite dishes Filipinos serve during special occasions such as birthdays and fiestas.
Filipino Sweet-Style Meaty Spaghetti instructions
- Prepare the Ingredients: Peel the garlic and red onion, then chop finely. Drain the canned button mushrooms and cut into half chunky pieces (You may slice each piece into 4 if you prefer thin pieces). Peel the casing of the hotdog and cut into quarter chunky pieces (You may cut it into even smaller pieces if you prefer). Grate the Eden cheese..
- Cook the Noodles: Boil water in a pot. Add the noodles and cook until tender. Drain hot water using a colander or strainer. Pour cold water to stop cooking the noodles. Drain again and set aside. (Cook pasta noodles according to packaging instructions.).
- Cook the spaghetti sauce: Heat a casserole pan over medium heat. Add the ground beef, season with salt and pepper, and sauté in its own fat until it turns light in color. Add the garlic and onion and sauté for 2-3 minutes. Add the corned beef, hotdog, and button mushrooms. Mix well. Cover the pan and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Add the spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, water, and sugar. Mix well and simmer for 15 minutes. Do the final seasoning with salt and pepper according to taste..
- Plating: Place spaghetti noodles on a plate. Pour a generous amount of sauce on it. Finally, top it with grated cheese. Enjoy!.
It has to be sweet, with lots of This recipe version makes use of store-bought Filipino spaghetti sauce. I then use just ground beef and add a can of cream of mushroom, which is. Since then, whenever Filipino spaghetti appears at a family function, I semi-secretly gorge on it, having an odd attraction to the sweetness. But what can I say, it may be designed for the kids, but there's no shame in an adult loving this meaty, sweet tomato sauce too. For this month theme, I made a long list of all the Filipino dishes I love to eat during my birthday and I've noticed I never actually cooked Filipino Sweet Style Spaghetti yet.
